Mars

Well, glad to hear those comments (I agree with them) but I guess I need to reframe my question. All things being equal, various technologies advance and make it practical to terraform. Would the environmentalist take issue with the possibility of disturbing the potential microbes? I think they would. All the reasons noted here were practical-i.e. solar wind, gravitational weakness-but I guess I was wondering about a value call. Would they value the microbes over the potential settlement of a planet for humans?

I know we've all probobly seen it but just for fun...

http://www.futurehi.net/images/space_colony1.jpg

Can you imagine thousands upon thousands of these bad bears?

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